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समङ्क (samaGka)

 
Capeller Eng
English
1 समङ्क॑
m.
hook, cramp (fig. = pain).
2 समङ्क॑
a.
bearing the same mark.
Spoken Sanskrit
English
समङ्क samaGka
adj.
bearing the same mark or sign
समङ्क samaGka
m.
hook
समङ्क samaGka
m.
crotchet
समङ्क samaGka
m.
particular animal destroying corn
Monier Williams Cologne
English
1. सम्-अङ्क॑
mfn.
(for 2. See सम्√ अञ्च्) bearing the same mark or sign,
ŚBr.
2. सम्-अङ्क
m.
(for 1. See above) a hook, crotchet (fig.
=
‘pain, ache’),
AV.
a partic. animal destroying corn, ib.
Vedic Reference
English
Sam-aṅka is a word of obscure sense occurring in two
passages of the Atharvaveda.^1 Bloomfield^2 renders it ‘hook’
in the first, and takes it to mean an insect destructive of grain
in the other.
1) i. 12, 2
vi. 50, 1.
2) Hymns of the Atharvaveda, 7, 142. Cf. St. Petersburg Dictionary, s.v.